A Description of the Center

About the CSC

New! Releasing Resiliency: National Community Resiliency Project Video

 

The CSC’s blog site. Read about our National Community Resiliency Project and expanding work in the Mississippi Delta

 

We teach parents, educators, youth-service workers, communities and organizations how to engage the innate resilience—the human capacity for learning, creativity, compassion, common sense and well-being—in the youth they teach and care for, and, as importantly, in themselves … to become wise and loving role models for our children.

 

The Center’s work is built on three decades of successfully applying a Principles-based/innate health psychology to communities and schools across the nation. We see an understanding of the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the "essential curriculum" for students, educators, caregivers and parents.

 

Understanding these Principles will assist our younger generations to most rapidly shed insecurity, fear, and the biases and prejudices of the past; and to more fully harness their innate goodness, creativity and wisdom …to create a world of unforeseen possibility and sustainable change.

 

 

The Center’s primary activities include:

 

  • Organizational training and consulting.

  • Leadership and learning retreats, and phone consults for individuals and organizational leaders.

  • Corporate wellness programs.

  • Producing materials for the fields of education, youth services and parenting, as well as community revitalization.

  • Producing articles, educational outreach on the Principles, speaking engagements.

  • Designing and implementing research.

 



Donate to the Center for Sustainable Change!

 

Join our current campaign to support the National Resiliency Project!

 

Your donation supports CSC’s work with:

  • inner-city communities and schools
  • youth "at-risk and at promise" and their counselors, parents and caregivers
  • staff in juvenile justice systems

 

Please contact the CSC at (650) 424-0705 for more information on our projects and programs and to make a donation. We accept donations via Visa, Master Card and American Express.



Design of this website was funded by a generous grant from…

 

The San Francisco Foundation



 

CSC Upcoming Events & Announcements

Join the CSC for our monthly Open Class in innate mental health and releasing our own resiliency. Our Open Class is the first Thursday of every month @ 6:30-8:00 p.m. Please RSVP in advance with Jayme King at jayme@principlespsychology.org or call (650) 424-0705, x. 20. Sliding scale, suggested donation of $20 to $45. Family members, community members, educators and professionals are welcome. This class is held in open dialogue format, with much of the content suggested by participants.

With memories of recent teen suicides in our local, Palo Alto community, the CSC continues our Open Classes with a special focus on increasing mental health and well-being in families & relationships… We especially invite families, (parents and teens) and couples to come together to:

3/4/2010 "What You Think About Me is None of My Business!" Are Teens the only ones who feel peer pressure & struggle to "fit in"? Teens, bring your stressed-out grown-ups to this workshop with Irina Khovraleva, IHSS, SWII & Community Practitioner in the 3 Principles, Santa Clara County Social Services.

 

4/1/2010 Communicating and Connecting with our Families and Beyond with Ami Chen Mills-Naim. Ms. Mills-Naim has worked with families and adolescents for more than 20 years, teaching the principles that govern innate resiliency—and what gets in the way. She is currently director of the National Community Resiliency Project, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

 

Teenagers and young adults, 21 and under, are welcome to all local CSC events at no charge.

Special Events & Workshops: Local & National

National Community Resiliency Project (Mississippi Delta) Workshops & Facilitator Training in Rolling Fork and Greenville, MS. Please call the Delta Citizens Alliance for details & future events: 662-344-9940.

March 12 & 13: "The Portal to Peace: Finding Deeper Peace for Yourself So You Can Illuminate the Path for Others" with Ms. Mills-Naim and Drs. Bill Pettit MD, and Linda Sandel-Pettit, Ed.D., AHEC workshop, Charlotte, NC. Contact Carolyn Minnock at 704-512-7587.

March 30: "Growing Mental Health for Parents and Teens" at the Palo Alto Family YMCA, 3412 Ross Road, Palo Alto, with Ami Chen Mills-Naim. Program time is 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. This event is open to the general public & registration is not required.

April 8 to May 13: "Spiritual Fitness" at the Palo Alto Family YMCA a six-part series, Thursday evenings, 6:30-8 pm. Join CSC's Director Ami Chen Naim for a reflective dive into the 3 Principles of Mind, Consciousness & Thought and how our understanding of these principles impacts family and work life, leading to increased peace-of-mind, harmony, communication, efficiency, and well-being. Teenagers 13 and over are welcome. Registration is through the YMCA only. Call (650) 856-9622 to register. Thursdays, April 8 – May 13, from 6:30 – 8pm.

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